Department of Anthropology
Bio
Sooah Kwak is a PhD student in Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to joining Penn, Sooah contributed to research at the American Museum of Natural History in New York and worked on humanities-centered AI initiatives in Korea. She is also a multimedia artist whose creative practice informs her ethnographic work. Website: sooahkwak.com
Research Interests
Medical Anthropology; Environmental Anthropology; Science and Technology Studies; Multispecies; Body; Food; Toxicity and Health; Waste; Magic and Ritual; Memory; Multimodal Ethnography; Museums; Transnational East Asia; The Two Koreas